As it turned out I had to uninstall everything and reinstall DS 4.5 and CMS, then managed to install the category setup. Now to start installing and categorizing…maybe, just maybe I will get to render something by next winter lol

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Ok so now I have reinstalled the Genesis Essentials and have them in the uncatagorized folder..BUT…that folder is in the default folder not under catagories like I thought it would be…that’s kinda awkward for moving files around NO? or do I still have something wrong in how I am doing this?

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My usual for organizing has gone by the wayside so I don’t mess up what the Smart Content tab does. If you do want to move files around you really need to do that through DAZ Studio. If you do it through the Explorer in Windows or what ever on MAC then the meta data won’t get updated. So while it looks a mess from a folder view in your OS browser it will be better organized via Smart Content. That’s my findings so far.

Thanks for that Adam, what I am trying to avoid is the ‘Categorize from Unassigned’ bit for all my content again, if I could change the base path on all the orphaned files at once - since everything is installed to the default path - that should fix the entries, or it at least did for the couple of individual files I tried. If there is no obvious way of changing that I’ll have to go back to the drawing board about how I install everything. Think I might be back to installing over the current folders again. Thanks.

Oh, I think I finally understand your problem. ^_^;; Why not just point DIM to reinstall things to your previous location? That’s what I did. Aside from a few duplicates, it wasn’t hard at all.

Ok so now I have reinstalled the Genesis Essentials and have them in the uncatagorized folder..BUT…that folder is in the default folder not under catagories like I thought it would be…that’s kinda awkward for moving files around NO? or do I still have something wrong in how I am doing this?

Nope, that’s correct unfortunately. Unassigned appears underneath Default. :/ I asked to have that changed, but it never happened.

So I spent the day reorganizing my categories and then got all kinds of errors saying it couldn’t find the data. Is there any rules to where you can move stuff to in categories? I was moving the files for the Genesis essentials bundle to characters, clothing etc…the problem seems to be when I moved files from the genesis/data folder…needless to say I reset the database and now its all gone :((( I could cry>>>>all that wasted time!

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No no, you can NEVER move stuff on the file system if you want to use categories.

adam what do you mean? I was moving files in the unassigned folder into different categories in your structure. Can you not move the files that come in the essentials? I was under the impression that moving files anywhere inside categories doesn’t affect their association to each other.

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this is my content directories now. Is sthere s step by step of how to move stuff around in categories? I think I have really messed it up now as the folders from adam’s folder structure are now integrated into my categories but not all of them ...only the ones I moved stuff to from unassigned category. I just don’t get it…sorry

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The problem is that you have nested content folders, “E:\3D Content” and “E:\3D Content\Genesis Characters”. Nested content folders will cause many problems, one of which is having special folders displayed that shouldn’t be visible.

Thanks for that Adam, what I am trying to avoid is the ‘Categorize from Unassigned’ bit for all my content again, if I could change the base path on all the orphaned files at once - since everything is installed to the default path - that should fix the entries, or it at least did for the couple of individual files I tried. If there is no obvious way of changing that I’ll have to go back to the drawing board about how I install everything. Think I might be back to installing over the current folders again. Thanks.

Oh, I think I finally understand your problem. ^_^;; Why not just point DIM to reinstall things to your previous location? That’s what I did. Aside from a few duplicates, it wasn’t hard at all.

Sorry if I wasn’t making sense ;-( I’ve been tossing between a clean install and over-writing my current setup. My IT head likes the clean install putting all DAZ content together, but without a relative easy way to sort the orphaned files I’m back to plan A and install over my previous setup